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Walk up to Lafayette Avenue between Fulton Street and Bedford Avenue for one of the best parties along the course. You can also catch runners at several points in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, along Bedford Avenue between Lafayette Avenue and Nassau Avenue. Take the L train to Bedford Avenue, the M or J train to Marcy Avenue or the G train to Nassau Avenue or Greenpoint Avenue. The Q subway line stops at several points along this stretch. North of 96th Street, use the 6 subway line to get to this part of the course.

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☆ Forget Aerodynamics: Running the Marathon in Style
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Callie Holtermann | Hilary Swift | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As 7 a.m. approached on Sunday, a crowd of runners stumbled blearily off the Staten Island Ferry in fleece blankets and body glitter. The blankets were for warmth, and the body glitter for morale to help them through the 26.2 miles that lay ahead. With energy gels and bodega coffees in hand, the crowd made its way to Fort Wadsworth, where thousands of runners congregate each year before running the New York City Marathon. Speed demons wearing Nike Vaporflys and short-shorts mingled with casual runners wearing “Monsters, Inc.” onesies. “I believe that joy and performance are not mutually exclusive,” she said.

Persons: ”, Alexi Pappas, “ Organizations: New York City Marathon, Nike, Inc Locations: Fort Wadsworth

Image This year’s women’s race was oddly slow until the last few miles. Tola had arrived in New York with questions about his fitness after he dropped out of the marathon at the world championships in Budapest this summer. When she made her marathon debut in New York last year, she went out fast before struggling to a sixth-place finish. “Sometimes,” Obiri said, “you learn from your mistakes.”She put those lessons to use in Boston earlier this year when she won her first world marathon major. By then, only Obiri, Gidey, Lokedi and two others — Viola Cheptoo, the runner-up in 2021, and Brigid Kosgei, a five-time world marathon major champion — were still in contention.

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☆ New York City Marathon: Start time, route and everything you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —More than 50,000 runners are set to descend on New York City on Sunday, transforming the city simultaneously into a stadium, carnival and an immense endurance test. Runners will take in all five boroughs of New York City on the 26.2 mile route. Complete coverage of the event is also available on the New York City Marathon’s app which can be downloaded here, and a full list of international broadcasters can be viewed here. Runners cross the Queensboro Bridge as they compete in the 2022 New York City Marathon. Meanwhile, Letesenbet Gidey is making her New York Marathon debut after she recorded the fastest ever women’s marathon debut last year.

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An eighteen-wheeler sat motionless at the intersection of 26th Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, completely blocking traffic in all directions. The New York City Marathon, a challenging 26.2-mile foot race that snakes across the city on the first Sunday in November each year, is the stage for some of the most remarkable athletes in the world. It is generally considered the largest marathon in the world, with almost 48,000 contestants last year. But they had no lost trucks to contend with, no red lights, yellow taxis or blue buses. On race day, like this Sunday, the course is cleared of traffic.

Persons: — Organizations: New York City Marathon Locations: Brooklyn, Staten Island, Central

☆ Your Guide to the 2023 New York City Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Jennie Coughlin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Early Sunday morning, the Staten Island Ferry will be packed with runners headed to the starting line of the annual New York City Marathon. Thousands of spectators will line the route, which stretches through all five boroughs, to cheer for friends, relatives and strangers — elite athletes and amateurs alike. Marathon day typically feels like a giant 26.2-mile block party, complete with signs, bands, cheering and cowbells, as New Yorkers celebrate one of the year’s biggest events. Whether you’re a runner, a spectator or even somebody with no interest in the marathon who is trying to get around the city, here’s what you need to know about this year’s race. Weather forecastBetween the unseasonable warmth of last year’s marathon day and the rain that has washed out most weekends this fall, weather conditions may be high on runners’ list of concerns.

Organizations: New York City Marathon Locations: Staten, New, you’re, here’s

☆ Sigrid Nunez’s Art of Noticing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Wyatt Mason | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Growing up on Staten Island, Nunez was an outsider to the literary world. Her father immigrated to the United States illegally at some point — facts on his life are scant, according to Nunez — working in a hospital kitchen and Chinese restaurants. Home difficulties aside, Nunez was an avid reader and a strong student, which earned her the scholarship to Barnard. Auden and Susan Sontag (who later hired Nunez as a typist, a period memorialized in Nunez’s one memoir, “Sempre Susan”). Silvers was notorious for yelling at his staff or barely noticing them, for expecting them to stay until all hours, as he would.

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☆ ‘I Decided I Needed a Slice of Junior’s Strawberry Cheesecake’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

ImageNeeding Junior’sDear Diary:On a fall evening, I decided I needed a slice of Junior’s strawberry cheesecake right away. At the time, I lived in an apartment in the St. George section of Staten Island with a view of the Statue of Liberty. Then came a lovely ferry ride to Manhattan with the city lit up in all its finery. Then a walk to Junior’s, where I ordered a slice of cheesecake to go. Then a ferry ride back to Staten Island and a walk home.

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☆ Morgan Stanley has named Ted Pick as its next CEO, putting an end to the race to succeed James Gorman at the top of a Wall Street giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Morgan Stanley's hard-charging trading boss Ted Pick is set to succeed CEO James Gorman. AdvertisementAdvertisementFive months after Morgan Stanley's James Gorman announced he was stepping down, the pick is in. AdvertisementAdvertisementPick is credited with transforming Morgan Stanley's key equities and fixed-income businesses. Morgan Stanley has declined to comment aside from stating earlier this year that the bank was cooperating with regulators. At a bank that prizes loyalty perhaps more than any other, a trader who "bleeds Morgan Stanley blue" may be a welcome choice.

Persons: Morgan Stanley's, Ted Pick, James Gorman, Gorman, Andy Saperstein, Dan Simkowitz, —, Morgan Stanley's James Gorman, Edward, Ted, Pick, Tom Glocer, Morgan, He's, Morgan Stanley, Simkowitz, Saperstein, John Mack, Mack Organizations: Service, Investment, Harvard, Disney, McKinsey, Staten

☆ How Morgan Stanley exec Ted Pick rose from 'rough edged' deal junkie to CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Editor's note: Morgan Stanley announced on October 25 that Ted Pick would replace James Gorman as CEO. Employees knew they were getting promoted if Pick told them to wear a tie the following day, an ex-managing director recalled. While Morgan Stanley currently trades at a premium among its Wall Street peers, its enviable success isn't thanks to Pick. Gonzalo Marroquin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Show less Morgan Stanley investment management head and dark horse in the race for CEO, Dan Simkowitz. Despite enjoying the stock price gains under Gorman's reign, plenty of longtime employees want another dyed-in-the-wool Morgan Stanley loyalist, according to a former senior executive.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Ted Pick, James Gorman, Pick, Gucci loafers, Blackstone, Tony James, Morgan, Gorman, Andy Saperstein, Dan Simkowitz, John Mack, Ted, James, Phil Purcell, Mack, Purcell, Merrill Lynch, Paul Taubman, Colm Kelleher, coheads, Gonzalo Marroquin, Patrick McMullan, Saperstein, Euromoney, Parker Gilbert, He's, John, cohead, Bolu, Goldman Sachs, Pablo, tony, Betsey Kittenplan, Smith Barney, James cochairs, Jim Breyer, Anna Wintour, John Mack pranking Pick, John Waldron, I'm, Howard Marks, Bill Parcells, atta, Brian Moynihan, aren't, David Solomon, Jamie Dimon's, Eaton Vance, he's, you've, Richard Drew, —, Hayley Cuccinello Organizations: Employees, Archegos Capital Management, Blackstone, McKinsey, Getty, Middlebury College, China Construction Bank, Harvard Business School, Mitsubishi, Wall, Autonomous Research, Anguilla, Agricultural Bank of China, Capital Management, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, New York Rangers, Oaktree Capital Management, Bloomberg, Staten, Disney, JPMorgan, Trade, AP Locations: China, Beijing, Manhattan, New York City, Caracas, Venezuela, Brookville, tony Long, hcuccinello@insider.com

☆ Netflix aims to 'crawl, walk, run' when it comes to video games. It's still crawling
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Drew Richardson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Former Electronic Arts mobile gaming executive Mike Verdu joined Netflix as vice president of game development in 2021. Getting existing subscribers to download and play mobile games is a challenge, though, Benes noted. As of September 2023, Netflix's games have been downloaded 70.5 million times, globally, according to data obtained from Apptopia. The beta rollout to limited users Canada and the U.K. included Oxenfree from Night School Studio, a Netflix game studio, and Molehew's Mining Adventure, a gem-mining arcade game. But Netflix is not looking to be a console replacement, Netflix gaming executive Verdu previously told Tech Crunch.

Persons: It's, we've, Greg Peters, Ross Benes, Mike Verdu, Joseph Staten, Benes, Netflix's, Playrix, Candy Crush, King, Peters, Sunny Dhillon, Kyber Knight, Dhillon, Verdu Organizations: Netflix, Intelligence, Electronic Arts, AAA, Night School, Street, Tech, CNBC Locations: Canada

☆ How an Urban Forager Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The urban forager Aly Stoffo leads excursions on Staten Island through her business, Glam Gardener NYC, and is a regular at farmers’ markets across New York and New Jersey, where she sells teas and tinctures made with the plants she harvests. Her Sundays can be chaotic. Ms. Stoffo, 28, is among five Staten Islanders whose portrait was painted by the artist Sarah Yuster for “Vulnerable Landscapes,” an exhibition that runs through December at the Staten Island Museum. The portraits highlight the work of locals working to promote a deeper understanding of the island’s flora, fauna and ecology. She lives in her childhood home with her father and older brother.

Persons: Aly Stoffo, ”, Stoffo, Sarah Yuster Organizations: Glam Gardener, Staten Islanders, Staten Island Museum Locations: Staten, New York, New Jersey

☆ Meet the candidates in the running to replace James Gorman as Morgan Stanley's CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman plans to retire by May 2024, leaving big shoes to fill. AdvertisementAdvertisementSuccession has traditionally been a bloody sport on Wall Street with the losers leaving and taking their lieutenants with them. Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, who plans to retire by May 2024, wants the buck the trend so the bank can hold onto all three candidates. "Wall Street has had a history of that not happening," said Gorman in a July earnings call. With Morgan Stanley at the top of its game, breaking up this well-oiled team could be disastrous.

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NEW YORK (AP) —Efforts to turn what was once the largest landfill site in the world into a public park hit a milestone Sunday with the opening of the first section open to the public, New York City officials said. The 21-acre (8.5-hectare) North Park section of what has become Freshkills Park includes pedestrian and cycling paths, an overlook deck, bird viewing tower and composting restroom that uses no water. The 2,200-acre (890-hectare) Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island was once the largest landfill site in the world. For five decades after its opening in 1948, it was the principal landfill for New York City’s garbage. The last barge of regular trash was delivered in 2001 when then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani closed the site, partly in response to Staten Island residents who had complained about being the city’s dumping ground.

Persons: Rudy Giuliani, Sue Donoghue Organizations: Freshkills Locations: New York, Staten, York City

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial: How Judge Lewis Kaplan has presided in FTX case
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan presides over the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried over the collapse of FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, at Federal Court in New York City, U.S., October 3, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. Last year, he presided over a civil trial in which the actor Kevin Spacey defeated a sexual abuse claim. When one prospective juror said they did not understand how cryptocurrency works, Kaplan said, "You probably have a lot of company in this courtroom." Several times during the first three days of testimony, Kaplan urged defense lawyers to move more quickly as they asked prosecution witnesses questions he deemed repetitive. Before the trial began, Kaplan issued several key rulings against the defense, including excluding some of their proposed expert witnesses and barring them from making certain arguments at trial.

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☆ New York's floods weren't a one-off — here's how the city is preparing for the future
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The same idea could be applied to create cloudburst gardens. Source: New York City Department of Environmental ProtectionNew York City environmental agencies are also working on installing rain gardens. Roughly 12,000 rain gardens have already been installed in New York City sidewalks, according to Aggarwala. Rain gardens line a sidewalk in Queens, NY. Source: NYC WaterAlong with extreme rainstorms, the climate chief is equally or more concerned about the threat of extreme heat, which causes more fatalities in the city rainfall.

Persons: Fatih Aktas, Rohit Aggarwala, today's, Winters, Hurricane Henri, Hurricane Ida, Nelson Vaz, Marc Wouters, Eric Adams, Aggarwala, Kathy Hochul Organizations: Anadolu Agency, Getty, New, York, CNBC, Hurricane, National Weather Service, Bronx and, New York City Department of Environmental Locations: Williamsburg , New York, United States, New York, York City, York, Miami, Jamaica, Queens , NY, Queens, Bronx, Bronx and Brooklyn, New York City, Staten Island, Staten, New, Yorker

☆ US labor board says Amazon breached terms of 2021 labor rights settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Security personnel are seen as Amazon workers gather outside Amazon’s LDJ5 sortation center, as employees begin voting to unionize a second warehouse in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S. April 25, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies Amazon.com Inc FollowSept 29 (Reuters) - Amazon.com (AMZN.O) was accused by officials of violating the terms of a U.S. labor board settlement, breaching a 2021 agreement which required the online retailer to let workers unionize. Last year, workers at an Amazon warehouse in New York City voted to form the first union at the company. "We've fully complied with the settlement agreement, which we voluntarily entered into in December 2021. Separately, the Teamsters union on Friday picketed outside two Amazon warehouses in Los Angeles.

Persons: unionize, Brendan McDermid, We've, Samrhitha, Shounak Dasgupta Organizations: REUTERS, National Labor Relations, Amazon, Teamsters, Thomson Locations: Staten Island, New York City, U.S, New York, Los Angeles, Bengaluru

☆ Judge Blocks Migrants From Former School, Questioning Shelter Guarantee
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Andy Newman | More About Andy Newman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A judge on Staten Island temporarily blocked New York City on Tuesday from using a former school as an emergency shelter for migrants, in a decision that could have broader implications for the city’s long-established obligation to offer shelter to anyone who asks for it. The city has struggled to provide housing to the more than 110,000 migrants who have entered its shelter system since early last year, in part because of a decades-old legal obligation, known as “right to shelter,” that requires it to provide a bed for anyone who is homeless and asks for one. Citing “right to shelter," Mayor Eric Adams issued an emergency order that let the city bypass the normal review process for opening homeless shelters. But on Tuesday, Justice Wayne Ozzi of State Supreme Court wrote that the “right to shelter” does not exist, and ordered the Staten Island school emptied. The ruling came in a suit against the city and state brought by a man who lives near the school and eight Republican city, state and federal elected officials who represent the island, New York City’s most conservative borough.

Persons: Eric Adams, Wayne Ozzi Organizations: Staten, Court, Republican Locations: New York City, Staten, New York

☆ Biden Joins U.A.W. Strike President Heads to Picket Line in Michigan to Court Autoworkers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Katie Rogers | Neal Boudette | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The high-profile contract fights have played out across the country, just as public opinion has been turning more in favor of organized labor. UPSThe union representing more than 325,000 UPS workers, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, spent months negotiating a new contract with the company. The workers’ key demands included better pay for part-time workers, whom the company relies on heavily during busy periods, and improved heat safety. The work stoppage has grown in scope since, with the union expanding its strike to include spare-parts distribution centers for G.M. has pointed to growth in profits and chief executive compensation in making its demands for improved compensation for its members.

Persons: they’ve, —, Shawn Fain Organizations: United Automobile Workers, SAG, Writers Guild of America, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Gallup, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hollywood, Guild of America, UPS, United Auto Workers, U.S, — Ford, General Motors, Teamsters Locations: Hollywood, Staten

☆ For Tesla and Musk, Auto Strike Carries Benefits and Risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Jack Ewing | More About Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Activists must get at least 30 percent of workers to sign union cards and force a vote overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. Companies often do all they can to dissuade workers from joining, hiring lawyers and consultants who specialize in defeating union campaigns. The company reported profit of $2.7 billion on sales of $25 billion in the second quarter, giving it a profit margin of about 11 percent. That profit margin is more than that of Ford or G.M., even after an exceptionally profitable period for those companies. In August, United Parcel Service employees won their biggest raises ever in a contract negotiated by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Persons: Tesla, Biden Organizations: National Labor Relations Board, Companies, Amazon, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot SA, Hollywood, United Parcel Service, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Locations: Staten, unionize, United States

So residents turned to other measures — heckling migrants who came looking for shelter and protesting loudly. It was on Mr. Herkert’s street, but he and others residents would not confirm whether they owned it. Gisela Rivadeneira, 24, and her father, Roberto Rivadeneira, 52, both originally from Ecuador, have been staying at the shelter since they arrived there 12 days ago. There are just a few more weeks before a 60-day deadline to move out, which the Adams administration recently imposed on migrants. The messages from the speaker over the weekend underlined the feeling that they are not welcome.

Persons: Gisela Rivadeneira, Roberto Rivadeneira, Adams, Mr, Rivadeneira Organizations: Staten, St, John Villa Academy, Advance, New York Post Locations: Staten Island, Ecuador, U.S

☆ How Black Nurses Were Recruited to Staten Island to Fight a Deadly Disease
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( John Freeman Gill | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

After several years, Ms. Allen became a nurse by graduating from a city program, and before returning to the pediatric hospital in her freshly earned nurse’s whites and cape, she worked briefly in Sea View’s adult wards. The most striking ornamental aspect of these pavilions was the six-foot-high terra-cotta frieze running around each building beneath its eaves. Here, against a backdrop of golden tiles, could be found polychrome images of doctors, seashells, garlands, red crosses and white nurses. The terra-cotta images were created using the “sectile” technique introduced at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris. In June, New York City Health + Hospitals agreed to allow the New York City Fire Department to occupy the old Sea View staff house for 40 years.

Persons: Allen, Almirall, Christine Jetten, Terra Cotta, ” Organizations: New, Woolworth, New York City Health, New York City Fire Department Locations: New York, New Jersey, Delft, Holland, Paris, Dutch, New York City

☆ His Mind Helped Rebuild New York. His Body Is Failing Him.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Christopher Maag | More About Christopher Maag | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A journalist who hears the Olympics pitch describes Mr. Doctoroff as a man whose eyes “gaze past you, out towards the horizon.”Why this constant drive? His brother Andy says Mr. Doctoroff should be more introspective, and who knows. Mr. Doctoroff is aware that he graduated Harvard aimless and lazy. Wound up in New York by following his wife, Alisa, who got a job in town. It is hard work seeing the future, and so Mr. Doctoroff puts everything into the job.

Persons: Doctoroff, Andy, Harvard aimless, Alisa, “, ”, Stephen Ross, Doctoroff’s, ’ ” Sharon Greenberger Organizations: Harvard, Companies, Ivy League Locations: New York, Bluffed, Bronx, Staten Island

☆ The Dirtiest Corners of New York City
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Michael Kolomatsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A new study by HouseFresh aimed to find the “dirtiest” cities in the United States by analyzing 12.3 million sanitation-related complaints made to 311 systems across the country. The remaining 26 cities were ranked based on the number of sanitation complaints per 100,000 residents. By this metric, Baltimore was found to be the “dirtiest” city, with 42,295 complaints per 100,000 residents. New York landed in 17th place, with 3,728 complaints per 100,000 residents, or less than a tenth of Baltimore’s rate. Four Brooklyn ZIP codes were among the city’s dirtiest 10.

Persons: HouseFresh Organizations: Milwaukee —, Stuyvesant Locations: United States, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Baltimore, ”, Sacramento, Milwaukee, New York, Bedford, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Bronx, Manhattan

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